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Oct 24, 2015

It's a Republic, A Constitutional Republic

The Founders in deciding what form of
government was to be established, made the decision by examining what
type of governments were being used around the globe and those
throughout history of civilization. At the time the predominant
government type was the monarchy. England had established a monarchy
like that of the classic Roman republic where there was one head of
government with a body of representatives of the people; being a
monarchy with a parliament instead of a senate. Later England would
remove the monarchy with a prime minister that was chosen by vote by
the people and parliament became more than just an advisory committee
of a king or queen. But before that occurred, the American colonists,
who wanted better, more direct, representation sent King George a
Declaration of Independence in defiance to a monarchy that refused to
listen to the people.

Those men who gathered on behalf of
each of the thirteen colonies put together a continental congress
that would be a temporary government that would be the government for
the united colonies that had begun a revolution to procure freedom
and independence from a monarchical tyrant 3,000 miles across the
sea.

Once that independence was established
and the revolution was won, the Founders gathered together in
Philadelphia to establish a government and a constitution that would
bind the colonies-turned-states into one nation with a central
government with certain rights for the individual state governments.
The Founders concluded that while democracy had its merits, as well
as a republic, neither form would last if the head of state would be
a monarch. The government was formed with three branches: executive,
legislative, and judiciary – all of which were separated, but act
by regulations established as one central, federal government that
required vote of representatives and senators of each state
government by and for the People.

Democracy is when the indigent,
and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Democracy
was created and established by the Greeks in the city-state of Athens
in the 5th
century BC that also included the surrounding territory of Attica.
It was a direct democracy, where citizens voted directly on
legislation and executive bills. The longest lasting and successful
leader of the Athenian democracy was Pericles.
After his death, democracy gave way to oligarchy and restored when
the Peloponnesian
War ended. After being restored it was modified by Eucleides.
It eventually evolved into an imperialist
democracy that had been established by evolving into a government
ruled by the mob. In other words, leaders would gain power by
promising if they voted for him he would provide them with benefits.

A
Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, who became fascinated with the new
type of government that the Americans had developed, wisely observed:

Democracy and socialism have
nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference:
while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality
in restraint and servitude.

Indeed,
this was the major reason why the republic, more specifically, a
constitutional republic, was chosen as the type of government to be
established for what our nation that became the United States.

Remember, democracy never lasts
long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a
democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Benjamin
Franklin,
another major character in the establishment of our nation, stated
when asked what form of government did the Continental Congress of
1787 decide when leaving Independence Hall:

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Americans
established by the early 1800s two political parties each organized
by the establishment of a political party platform. The original
political party system consisted of the Whig Party and the Second
Party System was
the Democratic
Party,
calling themselves Democrats.
The first member of the Democratic Party was Andrew
Jackson.

The
Whig Party was transformed into the Republican
Party
by the time Abraham
Lincoln
campaigned for office in 1860 and won the national election as
President of the United States. The party was given the acronym
nickname of “GOP” (Grand Old Party) and is one of the world's
oldest political parties that still exists.

In
the beginning, the major difference between the two parties was the
Democratic Party based its platform on democracy, and the GOP based
its platform upon the republic that was established by the Founders.
Another major difference that led to a Civil War was the Democratic
Party favored slavery, while Republicans did not. Abraham Lincoln was
the first Republican president. Originally, the GOP was the
anti-slavery party that consisted of northern White and African
Americans (after an amendment certified their right to vote),
businessmen, factory workers, and northern farmers; while the
Democrats were predominantly in the South, pro-slavery and
agricultural folks of that region.

After
the Restoration period after the Civil War and again after Civil
Rights movement took hold, the GOP expanded throughout the South as
socially conservative. By then the two-party system was established
and while Democrats and Republicans opposed each other, both were
determined there would be no third party and sought to hinder any
independent candidates.

The
Democratic Party began its turn toward socialist idealism in the
1920s when Woodrow
Wilson was
president beginning with social engineering policies and using
unconstitutional government authority to impose moral ideology in the
form of the Prohibition
Act. Wilson was the leader of the Progressive
Movement.
He established, with the help of Democrat control of Congress, the
Federal
Reserve Act, created by a secretive group of banking tycoons that
began at a meeting at Jekyll Island. G.
Edward Griffin
researched and has spoken about the problems with the established
Federal
Reserve. [See
Video]

President
Wilson reintroduced the income tax system that was established during
the Civil War to pay for war costs via the Revenue
Act of 1913. Labor unions were becoming established during this
period and the Wilson administration began the practice of the
Democratic Party's support and cooperation of trade unions. Wilson,
with the help of a Democrat Congress, signed the Espionage
Act of 1917 and the Sedition
Act of 1918, both suppressing any anti-war protests and movements
concerning the ongoing war in Europe. Wilson endorsed racial
segregation, but at the same time worked to ratify the right for
women to vote via a constitutional amendment. He promoted the failed
League of
Nations, precursor of the United Nations, that also is failing
and corrupted, after the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I.

Introduction
of socialism was firmly established when Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
(FDR) came to be president who holds the record of having four
successive terms, from 1933 to 1945.

At
the time, the world was in economic depression. His socialist plan
called the New
Deal,
was popular with Americans because of their desperation in what would
become known as the Great
Depression.
FDR realigned American politics and the Democrat Party as “liberals”
instead of “progressives” as Wilson did. FDR united labor unions,
created big-city political machines (Chicago political machine being
the most infamous and longest lasting), and firmly established
democratic socialism as the Democratic Party's agenda. The Social
Security was created for people who reached a certain age (which
continues to be extended) could receive a monthly retirement benefit.
Before Social Security, if a senior citizen did not have any other
retirement benefit, would end up depending upon the family unit or
perish in poverty. It was based upon a certain amount being withdrawn
from salaries and wages in order to accumulate enough to receive a
monthly stipend at retirement age. It is not part of the welfare
system that Democrats consistently push for, but a forced pension
system that was established as a 'trust' fund, meaning that those
funds were to be used for nothing else but social security payouts.
Democrats have blamed the lack of funds in the 'trust' system on the
'baby boomer' population because, they say, there are too many
reaching retirement age. But the truth is that over the decades,
Congress has dipped into that 'trust' fund to pay for other welfare
programs and national debt problems. Like the Constitution, it has
been abused and misused, departing from the original idea of its
establishment. It was, indirectly, and as the program progressed, directly, a means to provide identifying numbers to citizens and keep track of the populace in concert with the unconstitional income tax system. It also became a means of identification fraud, which has helped the Democrat's move to welcome illegal immigrants into the fold of their political entity. It became, like too many federal programs, a means to control the People. Today, citizens are given a social security number at birth, and since the 1970s, even military use their social security number as their military identifying number system.While Democrats are the primary guilty party, the
Republicans have a share on that blame as well. Just as the Democrats
allowed themselves to progress into socialism, using democracy as the
Athenians did, which ultimately became rule by the mob, instead of
the rule of law. Democrats choose to bend the rules whenever it fits
their agenda, while Republicans blemish the name of their party by
going along with the flow.

FDR
and democracy:

Let us never forget that
government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate
rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and
congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

But
the Democrat Party, since the time of FDR, has not realized that rule
of the mob doesn't work because politicians use emotion and
convincing citizens that government can overseer the lives of
citizens better than they can for themselves. Thus was established a
welfare state environment that counters free enterprise, property
rights and other liberties established by the Founders that,
especially John
Adams,
had warned about a democratic form of government, instead of a
constitutional republic.

Democracy cannot succeed unless
those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The
real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

While
description of our form of government as a democracy was not new, it
was firmly established by FDR and his fellow Democrats. Labor unions
had been established in the United States through immigration of the
Marxist ideology of Europe. Labor/trade unions of the United States
had been infiltrated by organized crime lords because they saw the
potential of creating wealth via legal means. Politicians were bought
with political donations, and while, certain unions contribute to the
GOP, the unions represent the largest cumulative donors of the
Democratic Party – and continues today. The unions have worked
their way into the government employee sector, which is
unconstitutional because that is the job of Congress along with
overseeing the handling of funds. With the Democratic and help of
some Republicans, the limitations of government prescribed by the
Constitution has been circumvented, including allowing a private
entity (unions) to dictate government employee policies instead of
the executive and legislative branches. This is especially dangerous
since unions spend large sums of money funding politicians that will
guarantee its form of monopoly.

Democratic
socialists learned from Marxism that by becoming the authority and
power over educational institutions, it can push their ideology and
further progress agenda by indoctrination of a nation's youth. Social
engineering and other methods are being used by democratic
progressives to create a population that does not and refuses to
think outside the box of what is prescribed by those operating our
federal government. This and other situations has come about because
We the People did not ensure that those we elect preserve and
maintain the constitutional republic, rule of law; rather than rule
of mob that democracy progresses to, then socialism, and finally
oligarchy. Sadly, our nation, its government with the blessing of a
majority of its people, is on the path that the Founders warned the
People about.

This
treatise is about a subject that would take a book to cover it in
detail, indeed, some have been written. General consensus is that
history and political science are boring subjects; however, both are
critical in disseminating knowledge, and both are intertwined.

Education,
like the family unit, is the foundation of any nation; indeed, the
very survival of civilization. Both have been compromised by an elite
within the populace that has put their personal agenda above the rule
of law and relying upon emotion overriding reason, indoctrinated
untruths that are unquestioned, and a people who, as JFK stated in
his first State of the Union address, want what their government can
give them instead of relying upon themselves and insisting upon those
that govern rule by limitations prescribed by the Constitution.

Serious
reformation of our government is in order to return it to the state
of being a constitutional republic; but first, We the People, must
first reform our society that will generate thinking out of the box,
the rule of law, and most importantly self-educating (reeducating)
and insist that government abide by limitations and delegate the
responsibly of overseeing education to the state and local government
that is closer and answers to the People – not unions, special
interest, or socialists now occupying the federal (and some state)
governments.

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